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The Moon on Sunday, August 4, 1985: Waning Gibbous, 87% lit

Waning · 86.6% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 25°

Moon age

17.5days

Moon phase on August 4, 1985Waning Gibbous

Sunday 4 August 1985396,726 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 4, 1985, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 86.6% of its visible face lit, 17.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

86.6%Illumination at noon UTC
17.5 dMoon age
396,726 km246,514 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (25°)
30.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 4, 1985 is on Wednesday, July 31, 1985 at 21:41 UTC, 4 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, August 16, 1985 at 10:06 UTC, 12 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Wednesday, July 31, 198521:41
Last Quarter (after)Thursday, August 8, 198518:29

The Moon around August 4

More about this date

Sunday, August 4, 1985 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 17, 1985 to the new moon of August 16, 1985, a cycle of 29.42 days.